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A Medicine to cure any Whitlaw.

TAke a pint of butter or halfe a pint as you think you shall have occasion often to use it, and boile the butter in a fry∣ing pan, till the Butter be black, then take it off the fire, and skum it, and when you have scummed the butter clean, then put in as much Sorrel into the frying pan with the butter, as you think will drink up all the butter in the pan, and let them boyle together so long as the butter and the Sorrell become a salve, then spread it upon a Cloth the breadth of the wound, and apply it to the soare as hot as you can well indure it, change your plaster once every twenty four hours, do this without omis∣sion some three weeks or a moneth together, & you shall see the wound clense and heale, then when you shall find by the plaster that the wound be perfectly cleansed, take halfe a peck of white or gray salt, and a gallon of running water, boile these toge∣ther a good while, till the salt be all melted into the water, then wash or dab the soar with this water, as hot as you can well indure it once or twice, having twenty foure hours distance be∣twixt every washing, and after every such washing, apply a∣gaine the plaster above said, then take the plaster off againe, ha∣ving laid the accustomed time, and after that lay no more pla∣sters: but only a clean cloth every day one, and this with the help of God will cure you without all faile, provided alwayes when you see the wound look of a fresh and lively colour as it will do when the plasters have drawn and eaten out all the cor∣ruption and putrified flesh, that then you keep the wound somewhat open, with a little ball of Lint, that so it heale not too fast, and you are cleane without any doubt or danger.

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